April 2012
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Can We Talk About Something Else?: A Plea on...
Film Criticism is a tough racket from what I can see. As a film fan and maker there’s nothing more I love than a well-thought out and impassioned piece on a film or a filmmaker or film history or anything else you can put ‘film’ in front of, besides a truly great film of course. Just like in anything there are as many bad critics as there are good ones but typically critics are...
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: A Proclamation of my Nerd... →
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By Danny April
You hear a lot of chatter in ever-flowing meta-critique of popular culture about how “It’s cool to be a nerd” these days. Take Joseph Gordon Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, who managed to break the entire internet for a day by making a Youtube video of themselves using a…
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How to Live Life: The Secret to Getting Everything...
The long con takes five minutes to explain and a lifetime to master. Like anything else it takes practice. The only problem con men face is that their practice runs can land them in prison and it’s extraordinarily difficult to run an effective con behind bars. The smart ones figure out ways to get around the prison problem. And it is in this way that Belief is the con man’s best...
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Ballistic: X vs. NC-17
It’s time America. Time for us to re-evaluate how we’ve been conducting ourselves for the last 30 years. By that I mean, of course, that it’s time to bring back the X-rating for films. Why? Because it’s cool. Way cooler than NC-17. But other reasons include:[[MORE]]
1) X is cleaner, simpler, and easier to understand than NC-17. I mean, what the hell does NC-17 even...
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Resume I sent to the AV Club for the Position of...
Today I noticed a story on the AV Club, that they were looking to hire a copy editor. If you are an experienced copy editor you should probably apply for the position as I imagine it would be a fun place to work. But as I told HUAC during the trial, “I am not nor have I ever been a Copy Editor.” So I’m probably as unqualified for the position as a Penguin-Astronaut. But I...
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Why Your Child Should Watch Horror Movies
Parents, I know this may fly in the face of all common sense but hear me out: Children should be allowed to watch horror movies.
I know, this is crazy right? They’ll have nightmares. They’ll scream and cry. They’ll grow up warped. While those first two statements are true it’s the last statement that I take issue with, and why shouldn’t I? I made the statement on...
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The Graphic Novel Movie: Cabin in the Woods
It’s finally happened. After ten summers of being beaten with fists, laser beams, mighty hammers and batarangs we have finally gotten a movie that adapts the storytelling techniques of comic books rather than just its most famous characters. Nothing can be truly spoiled if you are paying attention and being moved by what you see but nonetheless be warned: I saw the movie and am going to...
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The Death of 35mm IS a bad thing, dummy.
Imagine an idiot. Now imagine an idiot trying to work a shotgun. Don’t worry, it’s a regular old analog shotgun. There aren’t any fancy touchscreens on it. Oh look, he’s looking down the barrel now. Why does every hypothetical idiot always do that?
Thankfully this imaginary idiot couldn’t figure out how to work the shotgun so no one was harmed. But if this...
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What was I on?
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Where a Kid Can Be A Kid: The Lingering Effect of...
I’ve never gone to Chuck E Cheese but I have seen this commercial, and many like it, 10,586 times. The effect of having seen a commercial more times than I have the sunrise in all of my 29 years is that I feel as if I have been to Chuck E Cheese. Not just in the sense that I’ve been to many cheap kid friendly arcades/pizza places over the years and can pretty much put myself...
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The Imaginary Universe Held Together with Eyes or:...
The creation of an onscreen persona takes many many years. Some performers are lucky and have those oft-dreamed of and much touted Breakthrough Moments where a voice, an approach, a general all around shift occurs and a persona emerges that seems not only fully formed but as if it was always there.[[MORE]]
And sometimes, actually all the time, this voice will become diluted, or it will change...
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Bad Sext →
51Deep and Dangatorium’s own Danny April on the scourge of our times…one of ‘em anyways.
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By Danny April
Every man wants to imagine himself as Samson in the bedroom: Strong, hirsute with manliness, and eating honey out of a rotting lion’s carcass (read the story).
Weaned on hardcore pornography, the modern gentleman can have unrealistic expectations as to what...
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The Pepsi Generation
From time to time we here at 51Deep have ideas for movies that we can’t possibly shoot. Be it for budgetary reasons or because we don’t want to get disowned by our families. This is one of those ideas though to be honest it was an idea I had this morning when I woke up. Apologies for the formatting. Tumblr text posts can barely contain script format.
Enjoy!
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The UnHoly Trinity of 70's Horror
I would like to put an end to the misconceptions and gossip surrounding the evil religion devoted to 70’s Horror films that I created just now. The UnHoly Trinity is not simply one Trinity, it’s many Trinities that are equal in power and stature. What’s the point of creating an evil religion without bending the rules and structures of established religions? Crowley would...
WatchVideo Essay on Bob Balaban’s criminally underseen Parents. Currently available on Netflix. Watch it then watch this. There, I just planned out your next two hours. You’re welcome.
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One day I decided to record an EP. Why? Because I...
How I Accidentally Made A Porno →
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By John Keefer
If you’re like me, you live in Pennsylvania and make short films. You do this because you don’t live in New York or LA so in order to work in the medium you love, you need to do it yourself…or yourselves, with friends I mean. Mostly your work will remain by and large…
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Dan Harmon feels bad about Dan Harmon feeling bad...
I love you Dan Harmon. I even love saying your name silently to myself when I feel bad. But I don’t love you just because I am going to look like you in a few years. I love you because you are a shaman of my childhood. You have a few years on me and thus have learned the lessons of hours of watching TV. All of TV. The reruns of cartoons from the late 70’s and 80’s. The bizarre...
